For a director more interested in following his creative intuition than calculating his career, Brazilian-born Walter Salles has won several awards and international acclaim, and earned a reputation as one of Brazil’s leading filmmakers. Born in Rio de Janeiro into a well-to-do family—his father was a prominent banker and diplomat—Salles lived in France and the United States before resettling in his native country. After a stretch as an award-winning documentarian in the 1980’s, Salles turned to feature films with “Exposure” (“A Grande Arte”, 1991), a thriller about a photographer avenging